Magic Missile made the fight trivial for me. Just pop her illusions in one volley, silence the real one and wail on her. Easiest boss fight ever.
Real AD&D doesn't have the same kind (and real D&D doesn't have any) of the "multi-classing" that exists in "D&D 3rd edition" onward, where a player-character, upon gaining a level, can instantly take a "level" in a different character class without any justification, allowing for ridiculously overpowered combinations. This is one of a dozen or so major exploits in Baldur's Gate 3, if you have a desperate urge to make the combat easier.
Upon reaching 5th level, clerics gain access to 3rd level spells including spirit guardians, which creates an area-of-effect circle of damage around the cleric that lasts for a number of rounds (though requiring concentration). Even in Solasta, this spell was extremely powerful, and BG3 strengthened it by having damage applied at any time during the cleric's turn, so that the cleric can run around each round inflicting damage on as many enemies as possible; great against a large number of weaker enemies and useful in nearly every non-trivial fight. Granted, this still leaves 5th-level clerics underpowered relative to a fighter/paladin/barbarian/ranger/whatever who receives an extra attack each round, and also relative to a mage who can immediately cast
I've played with multiclassing yesterday for a few hours, one disadvantage that I see is there are some great benefits (more feats, more attacks, ridiculous spells and abilities) you get on higher levels (8+) and you'll never reach those if you split your character in three or more classes.
1st and 2nd Ed multiclass characters are more powerful than whatever combination 3.x could come up with (well, other than the infamous Pun-Pun or insane (story/lore-wise) stuff like the Twice Betrayer of Shar). Certain dual-classes are even more psycho than that. BG is on 2nd Ed rules and dual is bad enough. In 1st Ed (e.g., Gold Box), you can be a Paladin/Mage or Ranger/Mage dual, and the latter allows you to cast in armour.
Feats are a real consideration when multiclassing. But you're not loosing out on them if you take classes in increments of 4 (for example 8 levels in a martial class for Extra Attack and 2 Feats + 4 levels in another class).
I mean it's not really neccessary anyway, I was just damaging the illusions and it was going fine, so it didn't even occur to me to come up with some trick.
Yeah now that I've gotten some levels, I understand why everyone is multiclassing when the game is already easy. Some classes, especially martial classes, are incredibly frontloaded.
In Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, whether 1st or 2nd edition, humans are prohibited from multi-classing (as opposed to dual-classing), and the powerful multi-class combinations have the severe drawback of being limited to elves (or half-elves).
multiclassing in bg3 is literally cheating. When I Mult classed Astarian into a mage, I felt worse than using the mod that gives me 12 levels at the beginning of the game becaauise I know for a FACT astarian never went to wizard school
Eh, actually a Barb is not terrible. But a lot depends on archetype (Wildheart Tiger who attacks 3 enemies with each strike and has huge jump distance rocks, Berserkers make very strong throw barbs) and of course, the multiclassing alternative is still stronger.
Legendary hero stays legendary or nothing.
Or at least give her a buff for that one opening fight. Ddoesn't have to be OP as a companion, but give the old gal a big entrance for christ sake. Must have been confusing to new players too because of all that introduction, Karlach fangirling all over like she's just met the Beatles.
It's a good thing Gnomes can do it too except it's even better because they can be illusionist multiclasses.In Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, whether 1st or 2nd edition, humans are prohibited from multi-classing (as opposed to dual-classing), and the powerful multi-class combinations have the severe drawback of being limited to elves (or half-elves).
This happened to me just yesterday.
